Interesting. This made me wonder if anyone's ever read a whole book off of a computer screen. God knows I couldn't stand to. About as much as I can stand is a long article, but if anybody's ever read a whole book off thge screen,/.'s the place to find him.
I use Access as a front end to a mySQL database on our local linux server, using an ODBC connection just as if the database were on a remote server. This setup is actually faster for our database (main table has ~50K records in 30 columns) than it was when Access acted as the "server", that is, when there was one central Access database on the NT fileserver.
The big advantage is that I don't have to train people to use a new program, and I don't have to write a new script every time somebody comes up with a new problem, since Access will generate SQL queries (albeit not good ones, but this a very small DB).
What we are actually doing is having our users access a local copy of the database and doing a daily synch with the production DB. This prevents excess load on the web server, and prevents them from scrweing shit up.
If my company sends someone out with a laptop it's usually not to one of the covered cities
In talking to the sales rep, it seemed that Ricochet was intended mostly as a toy for laptop users. #1 evidence of this: no corporate accounts were available, only individual accounts.
(besides, according to this same rep, linux is not supported)
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by emulating windows succesfully, the linux community will no longer concentrate with the same focus on developing applications for linux natively
Well, Wine is only an emulator. An emulator will always have its problems, and MS Office running on an emulator will never have the smoothness of a native app like star office.
Anything that eases the transition for regular (non tech) users from windows to linux is a good thing. It's not just nerds who are sick of microsoft's products.
Here Here! Then again, this might complicate the ratings system a bit too much. I would only want to see 'Informative, but OFFTOPIC' comments where (score >= 2).
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Interesting. This made me wonder if anyone's ever read a whole book off of a computer screen. God knows I couldn't stand to. About as much as I can stand is a long article, but if anybody's ever read a whole book off thge screen, /.'s the place to find him.
(of course, you could print it out...)
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I use Access as a front end to a mySQL database on our local linux server, using an ODBC connection just as if the database were on a remote server. This setup is actually faster for our database (main table has ~50K records in 30 columns) than it was when Access acted as the "server", that is, when there was one central Access database on the NT fileserver.
The big advantage is that I don't have to train people to use a new program, and I don't have to write a new script every time somebody comes up with a new problem, since Access will generate SQL queries (albeit not good ones, but this a very small DB).
What we are actually doing is having our users access a local copy of the database and doing a daily synch with the production DB. This prevents excess load on the web server, and prevents them from scrweing shit up.
So now browser dictates content? This is a perversion of the idea of standards.
Check http://www.anybrowser.org to see what some people are doing to promote a web with access for all.
If my company sends someone out with a laptop it's usually not to one of the covered cities
In talking to the sales rep, it seemed that Ricochet was intended mostly as a toy for laptop users. #1 evidence of this: no corporate accounts were available, only individual accounts.
(besides, according to this same rep, linux is not supported)
You yank on your cords quite hard? Is this the solution to my problems as well?
What about gnuchess?
Maybe chess is not strictly a Linux game, but people will still play it in 1000 years...
and it's quite low-bandwidth.
Seriously, Royal Dutch/Shell have a shitty envirinmental record, and some rather questionable dealings with the gov't of Nigeria. Off topic? Maybe, but quite relevant on a larger scale.
by emulating windows succesfully, the linux community will no longer concentrate with the same focus on developing applications for linux natively
Well, Wine is only an emulator. An emulator will always have its problems, and MS Office running on an emulator will never have the smoothness of a native app like star office.
Anything that eases the transition for regular (non tech) users from windows to linux is a good thing.
It's not just nerds who are sick of microsoft's products.
Here Here! Then again, this might complicate the ratings system a bit too much. I would only want to see 'Informative, but OFFTOPIC' comments where (score >= 2).